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Re: [AVR-Chat] xmega programming

2010-09-01 by Leon Heller

On 01/09/2010 09:19, Tim Mitchell wrote:
>
> As far as I know any AVRISP MK2 (the USB version) will do PDI if loaded with the correct firmware.
> The latest version of AVR-Studio - download from Atmel - will do this automatically when it detects an old version of software in the AVRISP.
>
> Xmega is a very capable device with some nice features, but it has virtually nothing in common with the ordinary megas (apart from the assembler instruction set). All the hardware is entirely different- you can't "migrate" to it from ordinary megas, a complete rewrite would be needed.
>

They also have some nasty bugs which have never been fixed. Read the 
errata carefully.

Leon
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Leon Heller
G1HSM

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